Jean-Jacques Rousseau Quotes

The fundamental purpose of schools is to grow adults.

Learning is not just a labour market or economic growth issue. It is an integral part of human development. We learn from birth to death.

It's important to have the opportunity to learn.

Education is important because it prepares you for life.

Every human being is born an heir to an inheritance to which he can succeed only in a process of learning.

Training- training is everything; training is all there is to a person. We speak of nature; it is folly; there is no such thing as nature; what we call by that misleading name is merely heredity and training. We have no thoughts of our own, no opinions of our own; they are transmitted to us, trained into us.

Education is the great engine to personal development.

Education is not just about going to school and getting a degree. It's about widening your knowledge and absorbing the truth about life.

I think you never stop learning.

The minute that you're not learning I believe you're dead.

There's always a learning curve, where you've got to learn what your subject is all about.

You keep learning all the time.

Learning how to learn is life's most important skill.

Then there are the people who know me from the lectures. What I am really trying to do, what I need to accomplish at this time, is to fill in the gaps.

As long as you live, keep learning how to live.

Of course education becomes very very important and that's for our human resource development.

I always felt that I came up short in the education department, but I've come to the conclusion that we all get an education.

For me, learning is a continuous process and an all-inclusive one - reading a book, learning a musical instrument or learning the martial art called taekwondo. Teach myself something new - that's my prayer.

The purpose of education is to make good human beings with skill and expertise... Enlightened human beings can be created by teachers.

Every job leaves its residue, a bit of extra knowledge, a new skill-set.

Good education is so important. We do need to look at the way people are taught. It not just about qualifications to get a job. It's about being educated.

We discovered that education is not something which the teacher does, but that it is a natural process which develops spontaneously in the human being.

The education of a man is never completed until he dies.

Man learns from the cradle to the grave.

Education can become a self-fulfilling activity, liberating in and of itself.